This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
My hand to God, I didn't mean to
After all, look what we've been through
Men come in different shades
That's how we're made
The little house on Ellis Drive
Is where I felt most alive
The oak tree covered that old Ford
I miss it Lord
I miss it Lord
These blood red eyes
Don't see so good
But what's worse is if they could?
Would I change my ways?
Wasted times and broken dreams
Violent colors so obscene
It's all I see these days
These days
Watch what you say, the devil is listenin'
He's got ears that you wouldn't believe
And brother once you go to him
It's your soul you can never, never, never retrieve
These blood red eyes
Don't see so good
But what's worse is if they could?
Would I change my ways?
Wasted times and broken dreams
Violent colors so obscene
It's all I see these days
These days
After all, look what we've been through
Men come in different shades
That's how we're made
The little house on Ellis Drive
Is where I felt most alive
The oak tree covered that old Ford
I miss it Lord
I miss it Lord
These blood red eyes
Don't see so good
But what's worse is if they could?
Would I change my ways?
Wasted times and broken dreams
Violent colors so obscene
It's all I see these days
These days
Watch what you say, the devil is listenin'
He's got ears that you wouldn't believe
And brother once you go to him
It's your soul you can never, never, never retrieve
These blood red eyes
Don't see so good
But what's worse is if they could?
Would I change my ways?
Wasted times and broken dreams
Violent colors so obscene
It's all I see these days
These days
Lyrics submitted by mellow, edited by TheBoyofSummer
These Days Lyrics as written by Patrick James Carney Daniel Quine Auerbach
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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This song almost starts off as a love song to a past love or moment in time that he once loved. Its not just the lyrics, but the tone of the song where he feels so much regret about what has transpired to change him by so much. he feels like a completely different person with no chance of redemption or returning to what he used to have. Whether its drugs, the loss of innocence, or just the long road of mistakes that have changed him, he knows his days back on ellis drive are gone. He will no longer be the same man everyone once saw him as, and possibly the favorite time in his life. As the chorus comes, he recognizes that its all nostalgia, but perhaps he feels as though he isn't a good enough person to become what he once was. theres no redemption left in his heart or his soul and he is too far gone. his eyes are bloodshot, and he thinks that even if he had a chance to relive the best days of his life, he couldn't maintain the man he once was or the relationship he misses so deeply. he has failed his aspirations and dreams so deeply with all the time wasted fucking up. the second verse is absolutely the pinnacle of his failures. his knowledge of the devil shows that he has spent time in sin. he has been too messed up and has screwed around too much to see that all thetime he spent screwing around has changed him. changed him so much that his innocence, a past relationship, a person he had wished to be are all gone and that he has wasted a lot of things in pursuit of his happiness when it turns out years later that he had it the whole time but he was too blind to see it.